Assessment and Evaluation of

Learning Objective Type

Guidance Uses of Tests • Developing adequate basis  Requires the student to
 Assisting learners to set for pupil promotion or select the answer from
b. Free Response Type
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a set of questions for
measuring a sample of
behavior.
• It is a systematic form of
assessment that answers
the question, “How well
does the individual
perform – either in
comparison with others in
comparison with a domain
performance task?
Purposes or Uses of a Test
1. Instructional Uses of Tests Administrative Uses of Tests
2. Guidance Uses of Tests
3. Administrative Uses of
Tests
Instructional Uses of Tests
 Grouping learners for
instruction within a class
 Identifying learners who
need corrective and
enrichment experiences
 Measuring class progress
for any given period
 Assigning grades/marks
 Guiding activities for
specific learners (the slow,
average, fast)
understanding of children
with problems
 Preparing
information/data to guide
conferences with parents
about their children
 Determining interests in
types of occupations not
previously considered or
known by the students
 Predicting success in
future educational or
vocational behavior
 Determining emphasis to
be given to the different
learning areas in the
CURRICULUM
 Measuring the school
progress from year to
year
 Determining how well
students are attaining
worthwhile educational
goals
 Determining
appropriateness of the
school curriculum for
students of different levels
of ability
Standardized Tests
• Tests that have been
carefully constructed by
experts in the light of
accepted objectives
Ability tests
• combine verbal and
numerical ability,
reasoning and
computations
Aptitude Tests
• Tests which measure
potential in a specific field
or area;
• predict degree to which
an individual will succeed
in any given area such as
art, music, mechanical task
or academic studies
 classroom/instructional
objectives
1. Objective Type
 Answers are in the form of
a single word or phrase or
symbol
a. Limited Response Type
b. Free Response Type
2. True or False or
Alternative Response
3. Matching Type
b. Free Response Type
 A test that requires the
student to supply or
give the correct answer.
1. Short answer
2. Completion test
Subjective/ Essay Type
 Provide freedom of
response that is needed
to adequately assess
student’s ability to
formulate, organize,
integrate and evaluate
ideas and
Objective Type
 Requires the student to
select the answer from
a given number of
alternatives or choices
4. Multiple choice test
5. True or False or
Alternative Response
6. Matching Type
the correct answer.
3. Short answer
4. Completion test
Subjective/ Essay Type
 Provide freedom of
response that is needed to
adequately assess
student’s ability to
formulate, organize,
integrate and evaluate
ideas and
information or apply knowledge
and skills.
Limited Response Type
a. Multiple choice test –
consists of a stem each of
which presents three to
five alternatives or options
in which only one is
correct or definitely better
than the others.
Distracters or decoys or foils – all
the other options except the right
answer.
b. True or False or Alternative
Response – consists of declarative
statements that one has to
respond or mark true or false,
right or wrong, correct or
incorrect, yes or no, fact or
opinion, agree or disagree and the
like.
 It is a test made up of
items which allow
dichotomous responses.
c. Matching Type – consists of two
parallel columns with each word,
number or symbol in one column
being matched to a word,
sentence, or phrase in the other
column.
The items in column I or A for
which a match is sought are called
premises. The items in column II or
B from which the selection is made
are called responses.
Free Response Type or Supply
Test
• A test that requires the
student to supply or give
the correct answer.
a. Short answer – uses a
direct question that can be
answered by a word,
phrase, number or symbol.
b. Completion test – consists
of an incomplete
statement that can also be
answered by a word,
phrase, number or symbol.
Essay/ Subjective Type
a. Restricted Essay – limits
both the content and the
response
b. Extended essay – allows
the students to select any
factual information that
they is pertinent to
organize their answers in
accordance with their best
judgment and to integrate
and evaluate ideas which
they think appropriate.
Restricted Response
 Limits on the content
 Limits on the response
 Content is restricted by the
scope of the topic to be
discussed
Extended-Response
• Allows the student to
choose the scope of the
topic
• Student is able to
demonstrate the use of
higher-order cognitive
skills.